Cinema Speculation, Quentin Tarantino
Cinema Speculation, Quentin Tarantino
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Cinema Speculation

Bestseller

Author: Quentin Tarantino

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini, Quentin Tarantino

Unabridged: 10 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 11/01/2022


Synopsis

Instant New York Times bestsellerThe long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and creative as anything by Quentin Tarantino.In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans—and all movie lovers—could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer at the time, this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining. At once film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history, it is all written in the singular voice recognizable immediately as QT’s and with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the artform ever. The audiobook is narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, and features Quentin Tarantino reading the first and last chapters. A perfect listen for all fans! 

About Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino was born in 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is the writer-director of nine feature films, the winner of two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay, and the author of the novel Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Cinema Speculation is his first work of nonfiction.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Martin on October 26, 2022

This is absolutely the most fun I've had reading a book of film/criticism/history. Hands down. And the best volume of film criticism that I've read in years. Partly because Tarantino and I are roughly the same age, and I grew up enjoying similar movies, when I could see them. But mostly because of hi......more

Goodreads review by Paul on July 11, 2023

95% of this book is Quentin’s vastly knowledgeable vastly excitable helter-skelter through the film decade they call THE SEVENTIES, and when we say THE SEVENTIES we mean here a whole ton of violent movies made in America very often about revenge in the 70s. Other types of film do not get a look in.......more

Goodreads review by Sam on December 09, 2022

The second book by Quentin Tarantino is Cinema Speculation, a collection of nonfiction essays on 13 notable movies from between 1968 and 1981 mixed in with autobiography about his experience with these films. Let’s run through the checklist - how many of these have you seen? Bullitt (1968), Dirty Ha......more

Goodreads review by Meike on April 29, 2023

Is there something like narrative film criticism? Well, there certainly is now: I have seen almost none of the movies QT discusses in his first work of non-fiction, but his mixture of personal anecdotes and captivating essays reads like a smart, complex adventure story. For someone who loves to pond......more

Goodreads review by Arthur on July 11, 2023

QT writes like he talks, and that's a good thing.......more